Your Mail 6-26-2014: VA needs ... Media trust

VA needs

The Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs David LaCerte received a warm welcome by local veterans groups on his recent visit to Monroe.

The veterans gave high praise to the Veterans Service Officers that serve veterans in each parish in Louisiana for their assistance in filing claims and providing information.

However, the veterans group related major problems in obtaining service from the U.S Department of Veterans Administration.

They reported lack of medical care, misrepresentation of their claims, failure to get appointments on timely bases and many more problems. They felt that they were not listened to and their voices were not heard.

I told the veterans that they could get their voices heard by voting this fall in the Midterm Election.

The veterans must elect officials that are responsive to their needs. A large turnout of veterans would make elected officials listen. If the 316,000 veterans' in Louisiana and their families voted it could decide the election. The Committee to get out the Veteran Vote is making a statewide effort to get all veterans to vote. Veterans must participate in the political system that they fought for and now they must vote to protect it domestically. The vote is the best weapon that the veterans' have.

Huey P. O'Neal, USAF, retired, West Monroe

Media trust

It's funny, the Press is obsessed with popularity polls, except when it comes to the polls that show that only NPR is trusted to tell the truth by more than half the people participating.

The President's poll numbers are cited time and time again, but their poll numbers get scant attention.

Half the people in America say they can't trust the major news outlets in America, and more people trust John Stewart and Steven Colbert - and their audiences are better informed then the audiences of the major news outlets.

The comics who cover politics and the news are more trusted to tell the truth about politics and the world than the major mews outlets.

The goal of old Republicans is to vomit on everything. If everything is in chaos, getting the party in power out of power is made easier.

The Press is just looking for profits, not the truth, so vomit is what they are peddling.

The more chaos, blood and fear they can foment, the higher their profits because frightened paranoid people are always scouring the news for the latest outrage.

Damian Brumley, Montgomery

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